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EB/Gamestop - didn't they get sued?

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FlyinJ

Douchebag. Yes, me.
Am I crazy, or didn't EB/Gamestop have a class action suit won against them for selling opened product as "new" and not used?

I was in EB today, and bought three games. All of them were the gutted floor models, with greasy boxes and stickers all over them. I asked them how they can sell this stuff as new when clearly the boxes have been opened, banged around, stickered, and generally manhandled by the public for so long. I got the response that I could go to best buy if I didn't like it. I said that best buy didn't have one of the games I was buying. Then I got some condescending clerk smirk, who then said "Well, I guess you're stuck with us!".

Now, when a corporation loses a class action suit, aren't they kind of required by law to no longer do what they were doing when they broke the law? Or does EB/Gamestop just do whatever they want, regardless of past litigation, and just hope no one sues them again? Is there someone you can contact to complain about them breaking the law?

I'm so sick of dealing with these places. I should be able to walk in and buy a non-used sealed game when I buy a new game. Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax.

I don't walk into Safeway to buy some cereal, then have to bring an open box that I found in an aisle then have the clerk scoop cereal from a bin behind the register into it. I don't buy a brand new monitor from CompUSA and have the clerk just take a floor model off the display desk and pack it into an open box and sell it as new. These things are illegal.
 
Yeah yeah, I know it's been said a thousand times before.

My main question is about the lost class action suit, and how they can get away with ignoring it after they lost it.
 
FlyinJ said:
Yeah yeah, I know it's been said a thousand times before.

My main question is about the lost class action suit, and how they can get away with ignoring it after they lost it.
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The Defendants have agreed to post a notice in their stores that states: “All software for video game consoles may have been used and returned in accordance with [store tradename]’s return policy.” (“Disclosure Statement”) They also agreed to provide a coupon (“Coupon”) to any Class Member who, before the claims deadline described below, presents an original receipt evidencing the purchase of new video games software designed to be operated on the following video games consoles: Dreamcast, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Cube, Genesis, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Playstation 2, Super Nintendo, X Box, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Game Gear, 3D0, and NeoGeo (“Software For Video Game Consoles”) from a retail location operating under one of the Babbages Tradenames from April 12, 1998 through August 1, 2003, under the Funco Tradename from June 15, 2000 through August 1, 2003, or from Defendants’ Website from April 12, 1998 through July 1, 2002 and signs a Claim Form declaring under penalty of perjury that such Class Member purchased new Software For Video Game Consoles from such retail location or online at Defendants’ Website during such time period. The Coupon may be redeemed at any of Defendants’ retail locations (but not on Defendants’ Website) to obtain a five (5) percent discount on the purchase price of any one piece of Software for Video Consoles then in stock at the retail location where the Class Member redeems the Coupon. (See the Claim Form for instructions on how to obtain the benefits described in this paragraph.)
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basically they post a notice on their policy and if you can prove you bought goods from them within these times you geta ....coupon :lol
 
So, they just put a sign up in there store that says everything is used, even the new stuff. That's just swell.
 
I just buy gear from these stores on day one, otherwise I go elsewhere to avoid opened product. :p

Seriously, why are people still bitching about EB? The solution is simple-- go somewhere else or get your stuff off of the internet.
 
Joe Molotov said:
Okay, then go somewhere else.
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OMG lol ROFL RTFM BBQ

Like I said in my original post: "Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax." There's no where else around me that carries non-mainstream games.
 
FlyinJ said:
OMG lol ROFL RTFM BBQ

Like I said in my original post: "Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax." There's no where else around me that carries non-mainstream games.
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gamestop.com + FREESHIPALL
 
FlyinJ said:
OMG lol ROFL RTFM BBQ

Like I said in my original post: "Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax." There's no where else around me that carries non-mainstream games.
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So you're sick of dealing with, just not sick enough to go somewhere else or stop giving them your money. That's just swell.
 
The thing I love about GAFfers is that they will spew all this hate over EB and then say "I only buy day one" or "the clerks at my store are cool" as if that beats the system and somehow withholds EB's profit.
 
Everybody has got to make an EB/Gamestop thread.

If the stores pain you this much that you have to make a thread... then that $5 shipping should mean nothing. Is the 'pain' you go through worth $5?
 
Joeroll said:
Everybody has got to make an EB/Gamestop thread.

If the stores pain you this much that you have to make a thread... then that $5 shipping should mean nothing. Is the 'pain' you go through worth $5?
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I'm starting to think it's not. It sucks that you have to pay a premium to avoid that cesspool, but for the amount of BS they put me through I suppose it is worth it.
 
Ok so did you end up buying the games or not?

If you did, please stop you bitching, we've heard it enough and if you can't stand to pay the 5 dollar shipping from another site via Amazon, ToysRUs, ect than don't bring you bitching here, we've heard it all and then some.

Solution: Don't shop there. God knows I haven't in years.
 
FlyinJ said:
Am I crazy, or didn't EB/Gamestop have a class action suit won against them for selling opened product as "new" and not used?

I was in EB today, and bought three games. All of them were the gutted floor models, with greasy boxes and stickers all over them. I asked them how they can sell this stuff as new when clearly the boxes have been opened, banged around, stickered, and generally manhandled by the public for so long. I got the response that I could go to best buy if I didn't like it. I said that best buy didn't have one of the games I was buying. Then I got some condescending clerk smirk, who then said "Well, I guess you're stuck with us!".

Now, when a corporation loses a class action suit, aren't they kind of required by law to no longer do what they were doing when they broke the law? Or does EB/Gamestop just do whatever they want, regardless of past litigation, and just hope no one sues them again? Is there someone you can contact to complain about them breaking the law?

I'm so sick of dealing with these places. I should be able to walk in and buy a non-used sealed game when I buy a new game. Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax.

I don't walk into Safeway to buy some cereal, then have to bring an open box that I found in an aisle then have the clerk scoop cereal from a bin behind the register into it. I don't buy a brand new monitor from CompUSA and have the clerk just take a floor model off the display desk and pack it into an open box and sell it as new. These things are illegal.
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You haven't said anything about the games. What did the discs look like? As long as those were fine, I can't feel a lot of sympathy - you're throwing a fit over a friggin' package. You don't play the box. If there was a problem with the actual discs, then I can see you being annoyed - but on the other hand, you should always ask to see the discs before you take them, and if you didn't, or accepted them anyway, then that's kind of on you, too. :p
 
If your main problem was the cases and the stickers rather than the disc or anything, ask them to swap the games out to a bullshit-free case. They're normally pretty good with that kind of thing.
 
FlyinJ said:
Am I crazy, or didn't EB/Gamestop have a class action suit won against them for selling opened product as "new" and not used?

I was in EB today, and bought three games. All of them were the gutted floor models, with greasy boxes and stickers all over them. I asked them how they can sell this stuff as new when clearly the boxes have been opened, banged around, stickered, and generally manhandled by the public for so long. I got the response that I could go to best buy if I didn't like it. I said that best buy didn't have one of the games I was buying. Then I got some condescending clerk smirk, who then said "Well, I guess you're stuck with us!".

Now, when a corporation loses a class action suit, aren't they kind of required by law to no longer do what they were doing when they broke the law? Or does EB/Gamestop just do whatever they want, regardless of past litigation, and just hope no one sues them again? Is there someone you can contact to complain about them breaking the law?

I'm so sick of dealing with these places. I should be able to walk in and buy a non-used sealed game when I buy a new game. Sure, "order it online". But then I'm paying $5 more for shipping, on top of tax.

I don't walk into Safeway to buy some cereal, then have to bring an open box that I found in an aisle then have the clerk scoop cereal from a bin behind the register into it. I don't buy a brand new monitor from CompUSA and have the clerk just take a floor model off the display desk and pack it into an open box and sell it as new. These things are illegal.
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You are bitching about a box. Who cares about the box? Plus if you got the guts of the games they are still new. The only difference is you don't get to open the wrapping around it whoohoo big deal.
 
VegaShinra said:
You are bitching about a box. Who cares about the box? Plus if you got the guts of the games they are still new. The only difference is you don't get to open the wrapping around it whoohoo big deal.
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That's not the point. When you put money on something, generally you want all of it in tip-top shape if it's new.
 
omg rite said:
why did you bump an old thread?

oh, wait.
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:lol :lol


Seriously...
And on top of that, the 5% rebate exist since forever lol
It's just that now they have to make the policy explicit to the customer.
 
brandonh83 said:
That's not the point. When you put money on something, generally you want all of it in tip-top shape if it's new.
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Not to back the company up but no matter what people bitch. I've gotten new games at Walmarts that have had stratches on them or the button that holds the disc in place was broken but the outside of the case looked fine. If its that important that the box is in good shape take an older shittier game you own for the same system and change the box with the new one. If you bought a new GBA game and the box was crushed a little did you bitch about that too? The game isn't used the GAME is still new.
 
VegaShinra said:
Not to back the company up but no matter what people bitch. I've gotten new games at Walmarts that have had stratches on them or the button that holds the disc in place was broken but the outside of the case looked fine. If its that important that the box is in good shape take an older shittier game you own for the same system and change the box with the new one. If you bought a new GBA game and the box was crushed a little did you bitch about that too? The game isn't used the GAME is still new.
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Some people care, some don't. But the ones that do care, I mean, what's wrong with that? Some people like to collect as well, and thus do not want the packages all ****ed up.
 
brandonh83 said:
Some people care, some don't. But the ones that do care, I mean, what's wrong with that? Some people like to collect as well, and thus do not want the packages all ****ed up.
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I agree with that but I also doubt his packages where so ****ed up that they looked terrible. Some fingerprints on the casing probly which he would have created anyways. If he bought a game and the box was broken and torn then he is an idiot.
 
VegaShinra said:
I agree with that but I also doubt his packages where so ****ed up that they looked terrible. Some fingerprints on the casing probly which he would have created anyways. If he bought a game and the box was broken and torn then he is an idiot.
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Yeah, I know what you're saying, but I'm saying I can't really find fault with someone who wants something they buy brand new to BE brand new, package and all. :)
 
brandonh83 said:
Yeah, I know what you're saying, but I'm saying I can't really find fault with someone who wants something they buy brand new to BE brand new, package and all. :)
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Right, but it seems that he still purchased it, hence why we don't like the bitching...if you don't like it, so be it, but don't buy it THEN bitch about it.
 
Christopher said:
Right, but it seems that he still purchased it, hence why we don't like the bitching...if you don't like it, so be it, but don't buy it THEN bitch about it.
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Oh I know, I was really just replying to VegaShinra about boxes. I'm not really defending the bitchee here. :lol
 
VegaShinra said:
You are bitching about a box. Who cares about the box? Plus if you got the guts of the games they are still new. The only difference is you don't get to open the wrapping around it whoohoo big deal.
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Who cares about a box? Certain people in this forum(not I)... don't get me started on that.
 
You are bitching about a box. Who cares about the box? Plus if you got the guts of the games they are still new. The only difference is you don't get to open the wrapping around it whoohoo big deal.
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Yeah but maybe he likes to sniff the factory air inside the box that can only come from a freshley opened game.
 
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